Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump delivers remarks whereas introducing a brand new line of signature footwear at Sneaker Con on the Philadelphia Conference Heart on February 17, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Donald Trump urged Monday that if he have been elected president once more, his administration wouldn’t crack down on using Bitcoin or different cryptocurrencies utilizing regulatory authority.
“I have seen there has been a lot of use of that,” Trump stated, referring to the digital foreign money, throughout an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
“And I’m not sure that I’d want to take it away at this point,” he added.
Trump, who’s the presumptive Republican nominee for president, described himself a traditionalist when it comes to foreign money who, “used to say I want one currency, I want the dollar, I don’t want people leaving the dollar.”
However he added that when he not too long ago launched a line of pricy Trump-branded sneakers, “I noticed that so many of them were paid for with this with a new currency … you know, cryptocurrency and I couldn’t believe the amount.”
Requested if he had himself had purchased Bitcoin, Trump stated, “No, no, no, but I sometimes will let people pay through Bitcoin.”
